A MOB angered by an al-Qaida-linked suicide bombing in a Shi’ite mosque set a KFC restaurant on fire in Karachi in overnight rioting, killing six employees and bringing the overall death toll to 11, police said yesterday.

Six people were killed when a KFC restaurant was set on fire by a mob angry about a suicide attack on a Shiite mosque in Karachi, bringing the overall death toll to 11, police said today.

An attack and suicide bombing at a Shiite Muslim mosque in the southern city of Karachi today left at least four people dead - three of them the attackers - and a dozen injured, police said.

Police fired tear gas and shots in the air to disperse angry Sunni Muslims today after thousands of mourners joined the funeral of a prominent pro-Taliban cleric gunned down on a busy Karachi street.

Police in Pakistan tightened security today for the funeral of one of two prominent Sunni Muslim clerics whose murders on a busy Karachi street set off night-time riots by supporters, officials said.